foxy

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see also: Foxy

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ˈfɑksi/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɒksi/

Adjective

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

1. Having the qualities of a fox.
2. Cunning, sly.
3. Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
4. (of a, person, especially a woman) Reddish-brown haired.
5. (arts) Using too much of the reddish-brown colours.
   • 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:

     His eye for colour was so exquisite that I do not think there is a single instance in all his works of a heated tint which is called foxy. This cannot be said of Rubens or Rembrandt […]

   • 1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters:

     Although the skies of Brydael's pictures are often broken with rather heavy masses of orange and yellow clouds, yet, taking him altogether, he was not a 'foxy' painter; on the contrary, there is a silvery coolness about some of his pictures which pleases us.

6. (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sexy

Translations

• Russian: ли́сий
• Spanish: zorruno

Translations

• Russian: сексапи́льный

Translations

• French: roux
• Russian: ры́жий
• Spanish: pelirrojo

Translations

• French: foxé
• Russian: проки́сший

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Foxy

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Proper noun

1. A nickname of the surname Fox.

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